Here we develop our understanding of the capability to provide awareness within a collective, and of the gains to be made by DisCO participants, through awareness of significant events and patterns, as distinct from (and in relation to) the computation of value metrics.
DisCO practice aims for a high level of self- and mutual-awareness among coop members, with regard to their work contributions and livelihoods, and their contributions to commons transition and a living economy of care. A tacit capability of federated wiki is that it can be mobilised by skilled user-writers as an ‘awareness engine’.
**Facets of awareness** Wiki is a system that combines computational capability both in the browser (in tool plugins) and in server-side tools. Because wikis are federated, they carry tacit information of events (= Events in REA) and of accounts rendered (as edited page content) across the entire user community. The under-recognised capability of wiki for **event-based computation** constitutes a hugely under-developed potential for wiki as an **awareness engine**, as distinct from a powerful text-and-data **presentation tool** that lives in the browser, or a **distributed spreadsheet** (which are also wiki capabilities).
We consider four facets of awareness that can be facilitated by appropriately designed and mobilised tools in wiki . . - Server-side - Recent Changes, Neighborhood (rosters and search) ¿etc? - Server-side - Scrapes and analytics ¿etc¿ - Browser-side - Graph presentations - Awareness of systemic situation, pluriversality of Agents and Resources, mutuality of Agents, Resources & Events - Pages' text content (conceptualisation, codification, narrative) - Patterns, roles, ontology - REA, foprop §landscapes, ¿zones. See pattern-managing engine
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**Cultural commons** We also consider practices of enjoying, curating and stewarding the wiki toolset, as a cultural commons . . - **Wiki literacy** among users - Exploiting tools: writing, applying and configuring plugins, recording resources and events, coding values. - **Cultural commons** - Contributing, stewarding, enjoying commons.
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**Awareness engine vs value spreadsheet** We discuss and assess the impact of an awareness engine on the **operational capability**, and on the **‘look and feel’**, of practice in a world of DisCOs, compared with (and combined with) calculations based on value metrics, with regard to . . - **Self awareness**/capability/contribution - the life and cultivation of a DisCO activist - **Mutual awareness**/capability/contribution - the scope of outcomes, and scale of outcomes - **Aesthetics**, feminist valuing and making, commonism
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